Muslim mom's thoughts

Assalaamu alaikum, i'm a Muslim mom from the UK and here you can find my thoughts and ideas, inspiring quotes, photos that make you stop and reflect. I'm inspired by Waldorf Steiner schooling system, vegan/raw food and natural,simple living.

[heart-of-a-wildflower-deactivat]

Darling you are so much more than a diagnosis

[ohbutwebestmakepeacewithit]

271/365

[safina5]

[asmae0]

[asmae0]

[sufisofsindh]

[highmowingschool]

The first time I understood the benefit of a Waldorf education was my first week in college. Students around me were flipping out because they were afraid of writing papers. At High Mowing we had at least ten pages to write every night. It was such a big part of our education that I was very confident in my writing. We had to analyze each scene, then write the analysis. I still have my “Faust” main lesson book with me. When I wrote about it, I was able to expand my thinking and make it my own. That’s what’s so wonderful about Waldorf education. You’re exposed to all these different ideas, but you’re never given one view of it. You’re encouraged to think as an individual.

Julianna Margulies, Actress, former Waldorf student (attended High Mowing School)

[allah66]

[aboonoor-deactivated20180121]

Sulayman Ibn al-Qasim:The reward for every good deed can be known except the reward for patience.

Source: ‘Uddāt as-Ṣābirīn wa Dhākiratū ash-Shākirīn by Ibn Qayyim (p. 133)

[klasszik]

May I never forget, on my best day, that I need God as desperately as I did on my worst day.

(via pishogi)

[teesadutta]

[vox]

In recent months, discussions of Syrian migrants have happened mostly in negative terms. The latest work by graffiti artist Banksy encourages us to look at the other side of the coin. The image, painted near a refugee camp in Calais, France, depicts Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, whose biological father was born in Syria. If Jobs’s father, Abdulfattah Jandali, had not been allowed to come to the United States, there would have been no Steve Jobs, no Apple, and no iPhone.

[biladal-sham]

A Syrian refugee child looks on, moments after arriving on a raft with other Syrian refugees on a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos.  

GIORGOS MOUTAFIS/REUTERS

[rowaelin-trash]

38.5% of Syrian Refugees are <12 yo

To all you who say no to Syrian refugees, who are saying they are all terrorists, think about what you are saying. You are telling LITTLE CHILDREN they aren’t worthy of a good future. You are telling infants and toddlers they are not worthy of shelter, of food, of education because a few people that looked like them committed some terrible crimes. White supremacists have raped, lynched, mass murdered, but you aren’t denying white children of basic needs. So why is this different? Why do we close our doors? What are you saying about America when there are children and adults, men and women, gay and straight refugees fleeing war and terror and you say we can’t take them? Up your security measures. Up the screening process. But do not deny a child of their basic needs, do not let another refugee wash up on a beach dead.

[courtenaybird]

More than 1,000 American rabbis have signed a joint letter welcoming refugees and noting a parallel to the late 1930s, when the United States barred most Jewish refugees. The letter noted that refugees are fleeing persecution, not committing it.   ‘In 1939, our country could not tell the difference between an actual enemy and the victims of an enemy,’ the rabbis wrote. 'In 2015, let us not make the same mistake.’

NYTimes / How Well Do You Know Religion? (via courtenaybird)

[pxlestine]

This is the truth about the ‪Refugee Crisis‬

[huffpost]

The “Borat” actor and his wife made the donation Sunday.